Tomi Mikkonen
Partner at Privaon Oy
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTomi Mikkonen is a seasoned information security and data protection leader with over 20 years in the field and 12 years of focused industry experience, now partnering at Privaon in Helsinki. He has led privacy programs and product initiatives from hands-on engineering roles at Nokia to founding and scaling Privaon—driving the company past €2M in turnover and ranking among Finland’s fastest growers. Tomi blends privacy engineering, DPIA/PIA, and risk analysis with practical GTD-style execution, regularly stepping into demanding customer cases and service development. His background spans technical protocol and security design to executive leadership, giving him rare fluency across R&D, compliance, and commercial growth. Notably, he has translated academic privacy research into deployable Privacy-as-a-Service offerings and operational privacy-by-design practices used in large organizations.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Marketing, M.Sc., Marketing at Helsingin kauppakorkeakouluM.Sc., Telecommunications, M.Sc., Telecommunications at Helsinki University of Technology
Swedish, German
Github Skills (22)
arrow-keys10
discovery10
vue10
portal10
sailfishos8
vms8
virtualbox8
virtual-keyboard8
vagrantfile8
menu7
macbook-pro6
keyboard6
vagrant5
ansible5
macos-big-sur5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NatLibFi/NDL-VuFind2-Vagrant
Sep 2015 - Mar 2025
Vagrant setup for NDL VuFind2
Contributions:27 PRs, 297 pushes, 30 branches in 9 years 7 months
vagrantvmsansiblendlvirtualbox
tmikkonen/sailfish-arrowboard
Feb 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 21 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 1 month
virtual-keyboardarrowkeyskeyboardsailfishos
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